Facebook has been building its own servers and storage gear for years, and last June announced its first-ever networking gear in the form of a top-of-rack switch called “Wedge.” On Wednesday,… Read more »
Google just finished off another record-setting quarter and year for infrastructure spending, according to the company’s earnings report released last week. The web giant spent more than $3.5 billion on “real… Read more »
IO, the Phoenix-based company best known for selling modular data centers roughly the size of a shipping container, is splitting into two companies. The one focused on leasing data center space –… Read more »
Earlier this month, Facebook announced a new data center networking architecture that it calls, fittingly, “data center fabric.” We had Facebook Director of Network Engineering Najam Ahmad on the Structure Show… Read more »
Chinese search engine Baidu is trying to speed the performance of its deep learning models for image search using field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, made by Altera. Baidu has been experimenting… Read more »
A partnership between Google and Mesosphere further’s Google’s strategy to sell the world on its way of automating applications and resources. Cluster management is important — even sexy when wrapped in… Read more »
On this week’s Structure Show, we discussed how VMware handles automation both for its customers and in its own cloud, and how a startup called Mesosphere wants to turn parts of… Read more »
Large web companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon have been pushing the boundaries of IT for years, and now their problems — and solutions — are making their ways into… Read more »
Big data vendor Cloudera is no Google when it comes to data center footprint, but the cost and complexity of its infrastructure are growing with each passing year. Cloudera VP of… Read more »